Fiber tracking in the cervical spine and inferior brain regions with reversed gradient diffusion tensor imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 231-239

  Voss, Henning U ^a   Watts, Richard ^b   Uluǧ, Aziz M ^a   Ballon, Doug ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Inferior brain; Reversed gradient method; Spinal cord; White matter fiber tracking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CERVICAL SPINE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD;

ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 33645048500     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2005.12.007     Document Type: Article

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